South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 2005. Water tank.
South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station
- WRENN ID
- young-cellar-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 2005
- Type
- Water tank
- Address
- South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station, Great Central Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 543 191
- Coordinates
- 52.76736, -1.19547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station is a railway water tank built in 1899 for the Great Central Railway. It is made of wrought and cast iron and features a standard design of a circular tank constructed from wrought iron plates atop a cast iron column. This tank is part of a group with Loughborough Central Station and is one of the few examples of these water tanks still in their original location, with two others also located in Loughborough.
Loughborough Central Station was opened by the Great Central Railway on what was originally the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's London Extension, which was promoted in 1893. The railway became the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station opened on 15th March 1899 and closed on 5th May 1969, but it was reopened on 23rd March 1974 as the headquarters of the Great Central Railway, a private steam preservation line. The station remains almost completely unaltered since 1898 and continues to operate as a traditional steam railway.
Local climate
South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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